No, that is the stuff they are selling. Records about thee and me.
How many times you've applied for a credit card. How much and when was your mortgage application. How many parking tickets you have. Any and all newspaper articles where your name turns up.
Just as with television...We are not the consumer. We are the product. We are being bought and sold daily.
Everyone already has an internet pipe into their house. The phone line. Not good for sucking down your distro of the week, but millions of people get by just fine with dial-up.
(and the hardware to do so)
Free hardware as well? Well, hell....why not just do away with personal income, and just give it all to the govt. They can then distribute everything we need to us.
No, it's not 'slightly ridiculous'. It's a new wrinkle in the identity theft schema.
People know about id theft here, and try to combat it in their personal dealings. And some people don't trust offshore companies, so they don't deal with them. One less avenue for your information to be screwed with.
Now, the homegrown companies you deal with and trust are making that decision for you. Releasing your info offshore, and you have no knowledge of it, and can't prevent it. And can't fight back.
Is offshore ID theft a big problem? No, not yet. Much smaller in terms of actual losses. But it is a whole other way to get screwed over.
If you start with the assumption that it will be compromised, you build in procedures to fix it. Up to and including sending out a runner to manually do whatever it is he needs to do.
Frequency hopping secure radio traffic, for instance. If you publish the algorithm used to determine what freq's and how far and fast you hop, you've given the other guy a toehold on listening in. Let him figure it out on his own. By the time he does, the battle may be over and it makes little difference.
"Buying a little time" is an essential part of a military operation. Encrypted communications, for instance. You have to assume that they will be broken, and your communications decoded. Eventually. But if you can keep the other guy in the dark for a month, a day, even an hour, you can get the jump on him.
In a letter to the "Comment and Discussion" department, published in the Aug 98 _Naval_Institute_Proceedings_, page 22, Captain Richard T. Rushton, then-CO of _Yorktown_, categorically states, "The _Yorktown_ was never towed as a result of any Smart Ship initiative. During my command, we lost propulsion power twice while using the new technology. Each time, we knew what caused the interrupt and were underway again in about 30 minutes. The September 1997 incident was caused by incorrect data insertion by a well-trained crewman. The _Yorktown_ returned to port using two FFG-7 emergency control units that specifically had been requested by me, and supported by other commands as a risk reducer. We knew there were some risks in the engineering development model propulsion-control system installed under a rapid prototyping development effort. The bottom line: The data field safeguards found in production-level systems were not installed yet in the _Yorktown_ by intention, until complete wring-out was accomplished."
Further: "The _Yorktown_ never missed an operational commitment, nor did she suffer a mission-degrading casualty during the Smart Ship assessment period. During that time she certified to deploy under the normal fleet training and assessment process.... She went on to execute a five-month Caribbean deployment that included extensive Smart Ship assessments by the Operational Test and Evaluation Force and Navy Manpower Analysis Center. Both organizations evaluated the _Yorktown_ as fully capable in meeting the required operational capabilities in a projected operating environment...."
The USS Yorktown was a testbed for the AEGIS cruiser series. NT was(is?) used as the OS for the LAN.
Crappy application not fully tested (and they knew that and accepted the risks) didn't know how to handle an improper user input. A zero went into the database. The app couldn't handle the DIV0, and crashed.
Even friggin' TLC has reality shows now. It's insane. And sad (anyone remember when TLC was shown in schools because it always ran educational content?).
TLC has gone from The Learning Channel to The Ladies Channel.
I know that an Airbus is 30% cheaper than a similar Boeing...
No, you don't know that. Both compaines are heavily subsidised by the respective governments in various ways. Which is subsidised more? The intricacies of corporate and governmental financing make that pretty much impossible to say. Since neither is in a total free market situation, we cannot know for sure which aircraft is cheaper to produce. And there are not two aircraft between the two companies that are similar enough to say 'This one is cheaper because of X'.
Is there one from each that carries X pax for Y range on Z pounds of fuel for A maintenance hours? No. Are Airbus aircraft cheaper by 30% per pax mile overall? Dunno. But a direct aircraft by aircraft comparison doesn't work.
Exactly. This site has a good discourse on the various state laws and possible federal entanglements.
For instance, New Hampshire (just picked at random). 'N. H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 570-A:2: It is a felony to intercept, or disclose the contents of, any telecommunication or oral communication without the consent of all parties.'
Sure, for a moon base, this type of construction would be pretty good. For a home that I'd want to live in down here...I think I'll give concrete walls a pass, no matter how fancy a shape it comes in.
I have a co-worker who is heavily into Habitat, and one of the main tenets is sweat equity. If we have robots building the things, where is the ownership?
Yeah, I did RTFA. And still, no matter what shape you put this in...a house, a real, livable house, is a much more than the walls.
Flat concrete sucks for interior surfaces. So you have to put on the inside. Drywall or similar. And before that, stub out the service lines. And after, put in the fixtures.
Saying '6 months to build a house' is true, but that includes all the stuff that this doesn't include. The walls are the easy part.
As a single family, semi-permanent residence? Who donates the land? Who donates theconstruction? If it is transient, who ensures that this 'housing complex for the homeless' doesn't get screwed up in a year or so? (Nothing against the homeless, but it WILL happen)
You'd have to be VERY creative not to make there very ugly.
I remember reading about similar processes 20-30 yrs ago in PopSci. OK, maybe not the completely robotic part, but run by one guy.
If you want a bare concrete wall 'house', fine. What about elec, water, sewage, cable lines? Fixtures? Foundation? There is much more to a house than 4 bare concrete walls.
If you accept creationism completely, literally, and unequivocally ("God snapped his fingers"), then why must things be totaly static? He designed, created, and set upon the earth (and everywhere else) things exactly as they are now, never to change? BS. The proof of change is all around.
OTOH, if you are in the evolution camp, where the hell did the cosmic egg/big bang come from? Why can't that be the '6 days', and from then on things 'evolved' into what they are now?
The two are not totally incompatible. And both sides are filled with intelligent people. Wrap your minds around that, and we might get somewhere.
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How many times you've applied for a credit card. How much and when was your mortgage application. How many parking tickets you have. Any and all newspaper articles where your name turns up.
Just as with television...We are not the consumer. We are the product. We are being bought and sold daily.
(and the hardware to do so)
Free hardware as well? Well, hell....why not just do away with personal income, and just give it all to the govt. They can then distribute everything we need to us.
People know about id theft here, and try to combat it in their personal dealings. And some people don't trust offshore companies, so they don't deal with them. One less avenue for your information to be screwed with.
Now, the homegrown companies you deal with and trust are making that decision for you. Releasing your info offshore, and you have no knowledge of it, and can't prevent it. And can't fight back.
Is offshore ID theft a big problem? No, not yet. Much smaller in terms of actual losses. But it is a whole other way to get screwed over.
Define 'in the area'. The USS Normandy was (according to reports) about 180 miles away. That is one magic missile.
The CIA making a video to explain why an airplane crashed. Someone should really explain that sometime.
Probably because there are so many crackpot theories...:)
Bomb
UFO
Meteor
Navy misfire
Navy purposeful fire
electromagnetic interference
Terrorists
and on and on...
And what, exactly, does this have to do with the USS Yorktown? That they were similar types of ships?
Frequency hopping secure radio traffic, for instance. If you publish the algorithm used to determine what freq's and how far and fast you hop, you've given the other guy a toehold on listening in. Let him figure it out on his own. By the time he does, the battle may be over and it makes little difference.
"Buying a little time" is an essential part of a military operation. Encrypted communications, for instance. You have to assume that they will be broken, and your communications decoded. Eventually. But if you can keep the other guy in the dark for a month, a day, even an hour, you can get the jump on him.
In a letter to the "Comment and Discussion" department, published in the Aug 98 _Naval_Institute_Proceedings_, page 22, Captain Richard T. Rushton, then-CO of _Yorktown_, categorically states, "The _Yorktown_ was never towed as a result of any Smart Ship initiative. During my command, we lost propulsion power twice while using the new technology. Each time, we knew what caused the interrupt and were underway again in about 30 minutes. The September 1997 incident was caused by incorrect data insertion by a well-trained crewman. The _Yorktown_ returned to port using two FFG-7 emergency control units that specifically had been requested by me, and supported by other commands as a risk reducer. We knew there were some risks in the engineering development model propulsion-control system installed under a rapid prototyping development effort. The bottom line: The data field safeguards found in production-level systems were not installed yet in the _Yorktown_ by intention, until complete wring-out was accomplished."
Further: ... She went on to execute a five-month Caribbean deployment that included extensive Smart Ship assessments by the Operational Test and Evaluation Force and Navy Manpower Analysis Center. Both organizations evaluated the _Yorktown_ as fully capable in meeting the required operational capabilities in a projected operating environment. ..."
"The _Yorktown_ never missed an operational commitment, nor did she suffer a mission-degrading casualty during the Smart Ship assessment period. During that time she certified to deploy under the normal fleet training and assessment process.
Crappy application not fully tested (and they knew that and accepted the risks) didn't know how to handle an improper user input. A zero went into the database. The app couldn't handle the DIV0, and crashed.
The Navy report concluded it was the application and human error, and not NT.
You assume too much. Of COURSE there would be an arms race in cybernetic enhancements.
If Mod A can ensure a 110 mph fastball, then the next guy will want a 115 mph fastball, with a curve on it.
Has anyone asked the camels what they think of this? Large evil beasts might not take to kindly to having robotic jockey overlords.
And this is different from everywhere else how, exactly?
TLC has gone from The Learning Channel to The Ladies Channel.
Obviously, check with a legal mouthpiece first.
Replace 'intercept' with 'record'.
No, you don't know that. Both compaines are heavily subsidised by the respective governments in various ways. Which is subsidised more? The intricacies of corporate and governmental financing make that pretty much impossible to say. Since neither is in a total free market situation, we cannot know for sure which aircraft is cheaper to produce. And there are not two aircraft between the two companies that are similar enough to say 'This one is cheaper because of X'.
Is there one from each that carries X pax for Y range on Z pounds of fuel for A maintenance hours? No. Are Airbus aircraft cheaper by 30% per pax mile overall? Dunno. But a direct aircraft by aircraft comparison doesn't work.
For instance, New Hampshire (just picked at random).
'N. H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 570-A:2: It is a felony to intercept, or disclose the contents of, any telecommunication or oral communication without the consent of all parties.'
Wonder if the various wiretapping rules will eventually come into play. And if not, why not?
Sure, for a moon base, this type of construction would be pretty good. For a home that I'd want to live in down here...I think I'll give concrete walls a pass, no matter how fancy a shape it comes in.
Habitat for Humanity houses are not free by any stretch. Money + sweat equity.
Here ya go...here's your concrete bunker.
Flat concrete sucks for interior surfaces. So you have to put on the inside. Drywall or similar. And before that, stub out the service lines. And after, put in the fixtures.
Saying '6 months to build a house' is true, but that includes all the stuff that this doesn't include. The walls are the easy part.
You'd have to be VERY creative not to make there very ugly.
Yes. This is an improvement from the 4 yr olds we had last year.
If you want a bare concrete wall 'house', fine. What about elec, water, sewage, cable lines? Fixtures? Foundation? There is much more to a house than 4 bare concrete walls.
If you accept creationism completely, literally, and unequivocally ("God snapped his fingers"), then why must things be totaly static? He designed, created, and set upon the earth (and everywhere else) things exactly as they are now, never to change? BS. The proof of change is all around.
OTOH, if you are in the evolution camp, where the hell did the cosmic egg/big bang come from? Why can't that be the '6 days', and from then on things 'evolved' into what they are now?
The two are not totally incompatible. And both sides are filled with intelligent people. Wrap your minds around that, and we might get somewhere.